Verse 16
So the last will be first, and the first last.
Referenced Verses
- Matt 19:30 : 30 But a great number who are first will be last, and some who are last will be first.
- Mark 10:31 : 31 But a great number who are first will be last: and those who are last will be first.
- Luke 14:24 : 24 For I say to you that not one of those who were requested to come will have a taste of my feast.
- Luke 17:17-18 : 17 And Jesus said, Were there not ten men who were made clean? where are the nine? 18 Have not any of them come back to give glory to God, but only this one from a strange land?
- John 12:19-22 : 19 Then the Pharisees said one to another, You see, you are unable to do anything: the world has gone after him. 20 Now there were some Greeks among the people who had come up to give worship at the feast: 21 They came to Philip, who was of Beth-saida in Galilee, and made a request, saying, Sir, we have a desire to see Jesus. 22 Philip went and gave word of it to Andrew; and Andrew went with Philip to Jesus.
- Rom 8:30 : 30 And those who were marked out by him were named; and those who were named were given righteousness; and to those to whom he gave righteousness, in the same way he gave glory.
- 1 Thess 2:13 : 13 And for this cause we still give praise to God, that, when the word came to your ears through us, you took it, not as the word of man, but, as it truly is, the word of God, which has living power in you who have faith.
- Luke 13:28-30 : 28 There will be weeping and cries of sorrow when you see Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, but you yourselves are shut outside. 29 And they will come from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south, and take their places in the kingdom of God. 30 And the last will be first, and the first will be last.
- Matt 7:13 : 13 Go in by the narrow door; for wide is the door and open is the way which goes to destruction, and great numbers go in by it.
- Jas 1:23-25 : 23 Because if any man is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a glass; 24 For after looking at himself he goes away, and in a short time he has no memory of what he was like. 25 But he who goes on looking into the true law which makes him free, being not a hearer without memory but a doer putting it into effect, this man will have a blessing on his acts.
- Matt 22:14 : 14 For out of all to whom the good news has come, only a small number will get salvation.
- 2 Thess 2:13-14 : 13 But it is right for us to give praise to God at all times for you, brothers, loved by the Lord, because it was the purpose of God from the first that you might have salvation, being made holy by the Spirit and by faith in what is true: 14 And in this purpose he gave you a part through the good news of which we were the preachers, even that you might have part in the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
- Rom 9:30 : 30 What then may we say? That the nations who did not go after righteousness have got righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith:
- Rom 5:20 : 20 And the law came in addition, to make wrongdoing worse; but where there was much sin, there was much more grace:
- Luke 15:7 : 7 I say to you that even so there will be more joy in heaven when one sinner is turned away from his wrongdoing, than for ninety-nine good men, who have no need of a change of heart.
- Luke 7:47 : 47 And so I say to you, She will have forgiveness for her sins which are great in number, because of her great love: but he who has small need of forgiveness gives little love.
- Matt 8:11-12 : 11 And I say to you that numbers will come from the east and the west, and will take their seats with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven: 12 But the sons of the kingdom will be put out into the dark, and there will be weeping and cries of pain.
- Matt 21:31 : 31 Which of the two did his father's pleasure? They say, The first. Jesus said to them, Truly I say to you, that tax-farmers and loose women are going into the kingdom of God before you.